Modernization
Towns calls for IT committee on stimulus spending
Federal, state and private sector IT leaders should help track the stimulus package, House committee chairman suggests.
People
GAO: Energy faces problems with stimulus billions
The stimulus law sends almost $12 billion to Energy Department programs with track records that raise concerns about accountability, the GAO says.
Modernization
Agencies establish stimulus-focused sites
While the Obama administration and Congress have started tackling economic issues, agency Web teams have been setting up sites that help carry out the goals of the stimulus work.
Modernization
DISA makes software collaboration agreement
The agency will develop and share management and administration software under a cooperative research and development agreement.
Digital Government
D.C. mayor orders audit of office of chief technology officer
The Washington Post
Digital Government
Coburn questions OMB's delays on data
USASpending.gov doesn't include subcontract and subgrant data, although 2006 legislation required the data to be available online by Jan. 1, senator says.
Ideas
Avoiding a Space Arms Race
Bob Brewin reported on a House Armed Services Committee hearing held on Wednesday during which a consultant with the Council on Foreign Relations said the United States should pursue anti-satellite weapons that could disable foreign-operated satellites.
Digital Government
'AHLTA is Intolerable'
That's the title of the <a href=http://www.house.gov/hasc/calendar_next_week.shtml>hearing</a> that the House Armed Service Committee's subcommittee on Joint Military Personnel and Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities plans to hold on March 24. It will be on the Defense Department's AHLTA (<a href= http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/02/oh_ahlta_is_a_proper_noun.php>remember, not an acronym</a>) electronic health record system.
Digital Government